True North Centre for Public Policy

In 1994, the Independent Immigration Aid Association was started to help immigrants from the United Kingdom settle in British Columbia.{{Cite web|title=Federal Corporation Information - 264326-0 - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada|url=https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/CorporationsCanada/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=2643260|access-date=2021-09-09|website=www.ic.gc.ca}} According to Daniel Brown, a former director of the charity, a new board of directors took control of the charity in 2017 and renamed it the True North Centre for Public Policy. Control was handed off to three people:

• Kaz Nejatian, a former staffer for United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney, and current COO of Shopify.{{Cite web |date=2023-06-12 |title=Far-Right Website 'True North' is Spreading Deceptive Information About Canadian Wildfires |url=https://pressprogress.ca/far-right-website-true-north-is-spreading-deceptive-information-about-canadian-wildfires/ |access-date=2023-06-19 |website=Press Progress |language=en-CA}}
• William McBeath, the director of Training and Marketing for the right-wing Manning Centre for Building Democracy.
• Erynne Schuster, an Edmonton-based lawyer.

Nejatian's wife, Candice Malcolm, describes herself as the "founder and Editor-In-Chief" of True North.{{Cite web|last1=Dec 3|first1=iPolitics Published on|last2=2021 2:30am|date=2021-12-03|title=The Rebel to Rabble Review: Treetop activists and RCMP 'horror'|url=https://ipolitics.ca/2021/12/03/the-rebel-to-rabble-review-treetop-activists-rcmp-oversight-and-another-historic-first-for-the-greens/|access-date=2021-12-10|website=iPolitics|language=en-US}}{{cite web |title=Candice Malcolm |url=https://tnc.news/author/tnccanada/ |access-date=7 September 2021}} Malcom told Press Progress that she and her husband are on of the largest donor to True North.{{Cite web |last=Marx |first=Paris |date=2024-12-19 |title=Pierre Poilievre is cozying up to Canada’s far-right broligarchs ⋆ The Breach |url=https://breachmedia.ca/canada-far-right-tech-billionaires-pierre-poilievre/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=The Breach |language=en-CA}}{{Cite web |last=PressProgress |date=2024-07-10 |title=Shopify Executive’s Right-Wing Media Website Rails Against Immigrants While Defending a Legally Designated Terrorist Group |url=https://pressprogress.ca/shopify-executives-right-wing-media-website-rails-against-immigrants-while-defending-a-legally-designated-terrorist-group/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=PressProgress |language=en}}

When the immigration-focused charity was transformed into a media and research organization, the change was scrutinized in the Canadian legal field.{{Cite web|date=2019-10-19|title=Interesting article by Press Progress on the True North Centre for Public Policy|url=https://www.canadiancharitylaw.ca/blog/interesting_article_by_press_progress_on_the_true_north_centre_for_public_p/|access-date=2021-07-23|website=Canadian Charity Law|language=en-CA |last1=Blumberg |first1=Mark }} True North's filings with Canada Revenue Agency state that the organization runs "ongoing programs" that provide "support and assistance to UK immigrants to the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and the rest of British Columbia", that it has "new programs" dedicated to "research on immigration and integration", and that 100% of True North's programs emphasized "immigrant aid". However, the last available return filed with CRA was in 2017, and no new filings from the charity have been published since 2018.

In 2019, Canadian columnist Lindsay Shepherd joined True North as an investigative journalist.{{Cite web |last=Fiore |first=James Di |date=2019-12-02 |title=Blackballed: The Lindsay Shepherd Interview |url=https://blackballmedia.ca/2019/12/02/blackballed-the-lindsay-shepherd-interview/ |access-date=2021-07-23 |website=BlackBall Media |language=en-CA}}

During the 2019 federal election in Canada, True North was initially denied press access to the leaders' debate because it was not a news outlet but an advocacy organization.{{Cite web |title=Two right-wing media outlets win legal battle to attend the leaders' debate |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2019/right-wing-outlets-turn-to-court-after-being-barred-from-covering-election-debate-2 |access-date=2021-07-23 |website=National Post |language=en-CA}} True North argued that the decision to bar them was "unfair and arbitrary."{{Cite news |title=Conservative media company fights federal debate ban |url=https://torontosun.com/news/national/conservative-media-company-fights-federal-debate-ban |access-date=2021-07-23 |newspaper=Toronto Sun |language=en-CA}}True North contested this decision to bar them, and brought the Leader's Debates Commission to court. The federal judge, Justice Russell Zinn, ruled in favour of True North, and forced the government to allow them to attend the debate and ask questions as journalists. The same year, Toula Drimonis described True North as "fake news" in her editorial in Cult MTL.{{Cite web |last=Drimonis |first=Toula |date=2019-10-17 |title=Stop sharing fake news |url=https://cultmtl.com/2019/10/fake-news-media-literacy/ |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=Cult MTL |language=en-US}}

In July 2021, Canadian conservative writer and political columnist Sue Ann Levy announced she was joining True North.{{Cite web |last=Candice Malcolm |date=2021-07-08 |title=True North's newest contributor: Sue-Ann Levy |url=https://tnc.news/2021/07/08/true-norths-newest-contributor-sue-ann-levy/ |access-date=2021-07-23 |language=en-US}}

In 2022, the charity reported $2 million in revenue.

In 2023, True North's website published a video featuring presenter Harrison Faulkner, in which Faulkner claimed that the Canadian government was hiding the true cause of the 2023 Canadian wildfires. Faulkner's claim that arson arrests showed arson was the real cause of the fires was debunked, mainly because he pointed to news articles that were published years before the 2023 fires started.

in 2024, True North published a piece by Harrion Faulkner defending the Proud Boys, a terrorist organization designated by the Canadian federal government.{{Cite web |last=Halliday |first=Matthew |date=2025-04-07 |title=Who Stands to Win in Poilievre's Canada: Right-Wing Media |url=https://macleans.ca/politics/who-stands-to-win-in-poilievres-canada-right-wing-media/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Macleans.ca |language=en}} After Malcom was asked by Press Progress, she took the piece down from the site.

According to a post on Juno News, in 2025 some of True North's functions were transferred to Juno News, a site funded by Malcom and Keenan Bexte.{{cite web |title=A word from Candice Malcolm on True North, Juno News and why we’re making these changes |url=https://www.junonews.com/p/a-word-from-candice-malcolm-on-true |access-date=April 21, 2025 |website=Juno News}}

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